Whyman R A, MacFadyen E E
Department of Community Dental Health, School of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1994 Jul;78(1):47-50. doi: 10.1016/0030-4220(94)90116-3.
This article describes an 11-year-old patient in whom infective endocarditis developed after the occurrence of a dental abscess associated with a dens in dente affecting the maxillary left lateral incisor. Dens in dente has not been reported in the literature previously as a source of infection associated with infective endocarditis. A prolonged period of hospitalization was required to control the infective endocarditis, which was caused by a strain of nutritionally deficient streptococci.
